october 29, 2010 daily egyptian

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Brian Klubek says he wants his fac-ulty positions back.

Klubek, chair of the department of plant, soil and agricultural systems, said the department, which is part of the College of Agricultural Sciences, lost three tenure-track faculty positions — two soil science and one horticulture, because of budget cuts.

“It’s very frustrating, and it is frus-trating to my faculty, but we’re dealing with this; we’re trying to respond and looking to the future of getting our de-partment back up to strength,” he said.

Todd Winters, dean of the college, said he didn’t have to lay o! anyone, but he did eliminate four vacant positions.

Enrollment within the college in-creased by 21 percent in the " nal three years of former dean Gary Minish’s

tenure, according to the 2009-2010 SIUC Factbook. Winters said it is tough to lose faculty positions during a time when more students are coming to the college.

“When you're increasing students and losing faculty, that does cause some challenges,” he said.

Klubek said he and one other instructor now teach all the soil science classes, and some advanced-level classes, will be o! ered once every two years.

“# at impacts our undergraduate students and especially our junior col-lege transfer students in terms of sched-uling classes,” he said. “If they transfer in from a community college, they have to be very, very careful in scheduling classes to get all of the classes they need.”

He said his department is in a tough position because it has increased enroll-

ment, but the vacant faculty positions could come back to negatively a! ect enrollment.

Winters said the college does have money to hire people in temporary positions to " ll gaps and has every class covered this semester.

“I don’t think it’s seriously a! ected our academic mission,” he said. “It’s not the best situation, but I think we’ve been able to provide our students the educa-tion that they demand.”

As the university faced a $15.3 mil-lion shortfall coming in to " scal year 2011, Chancellor Rita Cheng said in an e-mail to university personnel Aug. 2 that she asked each department on campus to submit plans for an average 4 percent reduction in its budget for the " scal year. # e SIU Board of Trust-ees approved this year’s budget Sept. 16, which listed the 4 percent cuts as

saving $7.3 million.Because the reductions were aver-

aged across the colleges on campus, the College of Agricultural Sciences had to take only a 3.5 percent cut, Winters said.

# e cut cost the college about $233,000, all of which came from the elimination of the four positions, he said.

“In our college, with our budget, ev-ery 1 percent is about one faculty mem-ber,” Winters said.

Although faculty positions had to be eliminated, the college did not have to make any cuts to its “other than sal-ary” budget, or the part of the budget that includes everything except salary costs, Winters said.

Zack Koehler, a junior from Batavia studying microbiology, throws socks at zombies Wednesday during a “Save the Doctor” mission for the Humans vs. Zombies game in the Faner Hall breezeway.

Koehler is the leader of the Tunnel Snakes zombie hunting party. At the time of the photo, he was one of around 15 surviving humans still active in missions. FOR THE FULL STORY PLEASE SEE PAGE 6.

PAT SUTPHIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

College of Agricultural Sciences gains students, but loses faculty positions in budget cuts

JACOB MAYERDaily Egyptian

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# ough she said she would seek input from the campus, Chancel-lor Rita Cheng said Wednesday she will select the new provost and senior vice chancellor.

“I will be going to the faculty colleagues, the administrators here, anyone who has participated in the interviews and seek their advice,” she said. “But once I receive that advice, I'll weigh it and make the decision myself.”

Laura Dreuth Zeman, a profes-sor in social work and women’s studies and a member of the search committee, said she and other fac-ulty members have been disheart-ened by a lack of administrators going out to seek opinion from fac-ulty and sta! in regard to the pro-vost candidates. She said the lack of a feedback form a$ er every open forum was stunning.

“In the past searches I've been to, along with the public forums for top administrators, people have had the opportunity to write a note or something to express their thoughts about the candidates; here there are no feedback forms,” she said. “It's troubling that people most involved and most a! ected by the person in this position aren't going to have a voice.”

Laurie Achenbach, a professor in microbiology and chairwoman of the search committee, said at interim Provost Don Rice's forum Oct. 20 that, due to concerns raised by some faculty members about a lack of ways to give feedback on the candidates, feedback forms would be passed out to faculty a$ er the last candidate visits campus.

# e last candidate, Cameron Hackney, dean of the Davis Col-lege of Agriculture, Natural Re-sources and Design and director of the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station at West Virginia University, will hold his open forum Monday.

Cheng holds ! nal say on provostRYAN VOYLESDaily Egyptian

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I t’s very frustrating, and it is frustrating to my faculty, but we’re dealing with this; we’re trying to respond and looking to the future of getting our department back up to

strength.!— Brian Klubek

chair of the department of plant, soil and agricultural systems

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I think Randy Moss will torch his former team, but the New England Partriots will still win the game because they have Tom Brady and a defense that’s playing better than the Vikings’.

Two weeks removed from being traded to the Vikings from the New England Patriots, star wide receiver Randy Moss will take the field Sunday against New England. Will Moss torch his former team, or will New England prove they don’t need him to win games?

Moss will light up the Pats’ inexperienced secondary like a Jack ‘O Lantern — which is fitting, because the game will be played on Halloween.

How is Randy Moss going to torch the Patriots when they have no one to give him the ball? Favre will play, but hobbled, and Tarvaris Jackson has no skill except with his feet.

Walker said the team has more con) dence coming o* a great per-formance against the University of Missouri and the University of Ken-

tucky, but that doesn’t guarantee a win Saturday.

“+ e reality of it is that we can have con) dence and still get beat. We need to have con) dence and re-sults,” Walker said.

+ e Salukis will face the Bears

at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Edward J. Shea Natatorium in the Recreation Center.

Ryan Simonin can be reached at [email protected]

or 618-536-3311 ext. 274.

Senior SIU linebacker Stephen Franklin said the Salukis have strug-gled with man-to-man execution against the run and can't a* ord to give the Missouri State running backs any space Saturday.

“If they get out in the open ) eld they're pretty dangerous, so we're go-ing to try and keep them con) ned in the box and make the tackles there,” Franklin said. “We've just got to do a better job of knowing our schemes.”

+ e Salukis' own running game has earned 167 yards per game, 74 yards less than Missouri State's.

Junior running back Shari* Har-ris, SIU's leading rusher, said it's up to him and the rest of the backs to get better.

“It's more execution. We've got the o* ensive line doing a heck of a job, we just have to do a better job. And it starts with me in the back) eld, I've got to hit the holes right. Sometimes I will bounce and try to go outside and the hole won't be there,” Harris said.

+ e Bears play a four-linebacker, three-defensive lineman base de-fense, the same scheme as the Salukis. Like SIU, they bring pressure from multiple angles with that defense, Lennon said.

But for the ) rst time this season, the Salukis will have a completely healthy o* ensive line battling the Bears' pressure. Sophomore guard Eric Bergman and junior tackle Scott Becker have returned from injuries and will anchor the right side together Saturday for the ) rst time since Week 4, Lennon said.

Missouri State turned the ball over ) ve times in a 44-24 loss to the Salukis in the conference ) nale at McAndrew Stadium in 2009, and Al-len said turnovers will likely be the deciding factor Saturday.

In a conference where eight of the nine teams have two or three conference wins, Lennon said much will be decided with four weeks le, in the season.

“+ is weekend's important. It's important in the league. I think if you look at every team that's playing this weekend, it's probably as big of a weekend as we've got,” he said.

Kicko* for the game is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday in Spring) eld, Mo.

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Hamilton battles at bat and in his lifeSAN FRANCISCO — He

was the can’t miss kid, a talent so prodigious that he may have rewrit-ten the record books had things gone according to plan

When cocaine meant more to Josh Hamilton than life itself, though, baseball didn’t stand a chance.

“All I could think about was how to get and use more drugs,” Ham-ilton said a few days ago. “I mean

that’s all I cared about and all I thought about.”

Blessed with tremendous abil-ity, he was equally cursed by tre-mendous desires. + ey almost cost him his career, and could have cost him his life.

On + ursday night, Hamilton was batting third and playing center ) eld for the Texas Rangers in Game 2 of the World Series. If his team ends up winning the champion-ship, he’ll be the one being doused

on the ) eld with ginger ale instead of champagne.

He plays a game where failure comes easier than success. But his time on the ) eld may be the easi-est part of a life he struggles to live every day.

By now it’s become a routine, because a routine makes it that much harder to stray. For a base-ball player, the temptations of life can o, en be magni) ed by the temptations of the road.

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He said the college had made cuts to that part of the budget in the past, but he wanted to continue the college’s recruiting e) orts and student services.

Karen Jones, interim chair of the department of animal science, food and nutrition, said her department was not directly a) ected by the budget cuts, but it cannot * ll faculty positions a+ er faculty members retire or resign.

She said her department has hired more non-tenure-track professors to * ll positions previously held by ten-ured or tenure-track professors.

Jones said any additional budget

cuts would be tough for the depart-ment to absorb.

“We have a pretty good budget go-ing right now,” she said. “Our budget still has some , exibility in it. A per-manent 1 percent would really hurt, though.”

Winters said he held back an extra 1 percent at the start of the semester in case more cuts were needed. He said he

saved the additional 1 percent by keep-ing two positions vacant at University Farms. However, he said he would try to reorganize those positions in a more e- cient manner in the future.

Jones said University Farms is a major component of the animal sci-ence curriculum. While her depart-ment is not directly responsible for the day-to-day operation of the farms,

several faculty members are supervi-sors for the farms.

“Making those budgets at those units balance, especially a+ er the May 8 storm with feed mills collapsing and barns falling down, is a large bur-den on our faculty to try and make everything work like it is supposed to,” she said.

If more cuts become necessary, the college has some money in reserve that it could use to make another cut up to about 2 percent, Winters said.

Klubek said the cuts have not had a serious impact yet because the faculty has worked hard to keep the cuts from a) ecting students directly.

However, he said any additional

cuts could be “disastrous.”“If any more cuts have to come,

that’s going to be a backbreaker,” Klubek said. “Our backs are against the wall. . ere is no more room.”

Winters said the * nancial situation might get worse before it gets better, but the college has planned and adapt-ed to keep up with budget cuts.

“We’re agriculture,” he said. “Farm-ers are used to getting through tough times, and you have to plan ahead. You have to think about the future and try to forecast the best you can.”

Jacob Mayer can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 259.

AGRICULTURECONTINUED FROM 1

Turkish students gathered to share their ancient culture and to celebrate the founding of their modern republic.

The event, called Turkish Day, was held Wednesday at the John C. Guyon Auditorium in Mor-ris Library and focused on Mus-tafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey on Oct. 29, 1923. Atatürk, whose name means “the father of the Turks,” pioneered reforms that changed Turkey forever.

“This celebration is to remem-ber Atatürk and his reforms be-cause who we are is because of him. His reforms turned Turkey

into a western civilization,” Selin Guner, a Ph.D. student in political science from Turkey, said.

Baris Sagsoy, one of the event's organizers and a native of Turkey, said one of the day's purposes was to show students that Turkey is not an Arabic country, but a multi-faceted country with a dif-ferent language and rich culture that is thousands of years old and should be shared.

Members of the Turkish Stu-dent Association, a 25-year-old organization and sponsor of the event, said many Americans have misconceptions about the country that they are eager to clear up.

“Turkish people, we just want to share our culture and learn dif-ferent cultures, and we ask people

to share their cultures and expe-riences here,” Kursad Tosun, vice president of the Turkish Student Association, said.

Tosun, a graduate doctoral stu-dent in mathematics from Turkey, showed a video at the event about Atatürk and the changes that hap-pened in Turkey after World War I.

“Every year, on the 29th of Oc-tober, all around the world, Turks come together and celebrate this event,” Tosun said.

Guner said one of the ways Turks celebrate is with good cui-sine.

“There are many differences between Turkey and America, but the biggest one would be the food,” Guner said.

Several Turkish foods were served, such as lentil meatballs, beans, pita bread, rice, pastries and baklava. At-tendees of Guner's presentation were invited to try the dishes.

. ere were also many students in attendance who were eager to learn about the Turkish culture.

Michael Hensley, a graduate student in economics from Peoria, said the presentation was interest-ing and he learned much, having known nothing about Atatürk and

the founding of Turkey before the presentation.

Hensley said he would attend the celebration of Turkish Day at SIU again.

Guner said the Turkish Stu-dent Association has celebrated the day at SIU for three years and it plans to do it again in 2011.

Kelsi Lockhart can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 273.

Turkish Day celebrates Turkish Republic at SIUKELSI LOCKHARTDaily Egyptian

T urkish people, we just want to share our culture and learn different cultures, and we ask people to share

their cultures and experiences here.

— Kursad Tosunvice president of the Turkish Student Association

W e’re agriculture. Farmers are used to getting through tough times, and you have to plan ahead. You have to

think about the future and try to forecast the best you can.

— Todd Wintersdean of the college of agriculture

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Kim Rowan says without the recently installed hoop house, or-ganic farming on campus would need to take a winter break.

A hoop, or green, house main-tains a warmer temperature that allows plants to continue to grow during cooler seasons when the ground freezes.

“As soon as the winter comes along the ground freezes so we’re not able to plant anything,” Rowan said. “The hoop house will serve as a season extender.”

Besides being a student, Row-an said she is an active member in the Local Organic Gardening Ini-tiative of Carbondale, a student-run organization that grows food for the dining halls.

As of now 32 percent of food provided in the dining halls is lo-cally grown, but in the next few years the group plans to increase that percentage by providing veg-etables, Rowan said.

William Connors, the dining hall food service chef, said to-matoes, peppers, corn, potatoes, cauliflower and cabbage will be harvested in the hoop house this winter. Though the hoop house will multiply current growth by 300 percent, he said the results won’t come close to the vegetable demand in the dining halls.

“The hoop house could supple-ment what we buy, but it doesn’t even come close to what we need," Connors said.

He said the dining halls serve

more than 200 pounds of toma-toes alone, and the idea of campus farming satisfying these needs by December isn’t realistic.

“We’re just going one step at a time,” Connors said.

Laura Williams, a senior from Fairfield studying geography, serves as manager of LOGIC and said the entire growing process is in the early phases.

“Although the farming has ex-panded over the past two years, we definitely have a long way to go,” Williams said.

She said the first step in kick-starting the process is to encour-age more people to volunteer in the fields.

Twice a week, students and fac-ulty are given the opportunity to go out to the fields and volunteer their time. However, Williams said usually only four people show up, and lack of awareness is to blame.

“Over time awareness will in-crease, and if there are more vol-unteers the process will go along a lot quicker,” Williams said. “People don’t always realize the way food can affect every aspect of their lives.”

Rowan said she is surprised more students aren’t interested in participating especially after the

Green Fee became incorporated into tuition. On May 1, 2009, the SIU Board of Trustees passed the $10 per semester student Green Fee, which is projected to raise $300,000 annually and fund the campus farming, according to the SIUC sustainability website.

With money from the fee, Williams said her group expects to eventually get more land and possibly another hoop house. She said this would be a component of reaching their goal of supplying a majority of the food served in dining halls.

“The more students that vol-unteer, the more work is done, then we can prove how important this is and in the end receive more funding,” Williams said.

As far as this winter goes, Con-nors said the hoop house will make a significant difference but dining services will continue to import much of its produce.

“This is just a start,” he said. “We’re still in the experimental phases, but in the end we hope to expand enough to provide dining halls with a substantial amount of locally grown foods.”

Leah Stover can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 259.

Hoop house expands campus farming year-roundLEAH STOVERDaily Egyptian

Randy Hughes, president of the Faculty Association, said he has heard some faculty express their dissatisfaction with how the forums have been handled, along with a concern that their opinions are not being taken into consider-ation.

“I think that faculty concerns and what they find out about the candidates, all that information should be considered in a deci-sion,” he said. “Another aspect where the feedback seems to be failing is that the search commit-tee has been relieved in this pro-cess, which is unusual too.”

Dreuth Zeman said the search committee was disbanded once they submitted the names of rec-ommended candidates. She said though committee members can still give individual opinions to Cheng, the committee is not al-lowed to interview candidates when they tour campus.

But Cheng said she is still open to all feedback from campus, and anyone should feel free to contact

her by e-mail or phone or visit her office to voice an opinion.

“In the spirit of shared govern-ment, (faculty) should engage in the process, because the provost would be important not only to the deans but also the individual faculty. It's the academic core of this institution,” Cheng said. “So we need a real good, strong person in that position. Shared governance suggests that yes, yes (faculty) should be involved.”

Hughes said the policy of shared governance includes fac-ulty acting in a type of “advisory role” to make a decision, but he said he was still unsure if the spir-it of shared governance was being practiced in this situation. He said faculty and staff feedback needs to be taken as “real and impactful” in the decision.

While he understands Cheng's decision will be final, Hughes said administrators need to show they will take feedback seriously.

“There needs to be some mechanism for the constituents to know their feedback played a real and relevant role in the selection,” Hughes said.

Cheng said she hopes to make a selection by mid-to-late Novem-ber. She said everyone's opinion matters, but she reiterated the provost will be second-in-com-mand to her, and she wants some-one she is comfortable with in the role.

“I will broadly seek campus in-put, but the final decision will be mine,” she said.

Ryan Voyles can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 254.

DECISIONCONTINUED FROM 1

T he more students that volunteer, the more work is done, then we can prove how important this is and in the end

receive more funding.!— Laura Williams

a senior from Fairfield studying geography

I will be going to the faculty colleagues,

the administrators here, anyone who has participated in the interviews and seek their advice. But once I receive that advice, I’ll weigh it and make the decision myself.

— Rita Cheng Chancellor

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If an 11-person committee de-voted months to narrowing

down provost candidates for Chancel-lor Rita Cheng, it stands to reason it would have a say in the , nal decision.

And, in a way, committee mem-bers will. Cheng said Wednesday “in the spirit of shared governance” she encourages anyone, including committee members, to speak to her about the candidates following their on-campus visits this month. Although she will choose from the four , nalists selected by the com-mittee, and promises to take the community’s opinion into account, Cheng stands , rmly by choosing a candidate herself.

Committee member Laura Dreuth Zeman, professor of social work and women’s studies, said Cheng told the committee its role ended when the names were sub-mitted to her, and the committee would not interview candidates during on-campus interviews.

However, Cheng did not exclude committee members from candi-dates’ forums and faculty recep-tions at SIUC and, in fact, com-mittee head Laurie Achenbach introduced the candidates at many of those forums.

Cheng justi, ed the time and money spent on the committee with the time and e* ort it put into the selection process: screening ap-plicants, checking references and choosing , ve , nalists from roughly 40 applicants in the end. ! e , - h dropped out, leaving Cheng with interim Provost Don Rice, Gary Minish, former dean of the College of Agriculture, Robert Hampton, professor of sociology and social work at Tennessee State University, and Cameron Hackney, dean of the Davis College of Agriculture, Natu-ral Resources and Design in West Virginia.

Without knowing what other SIUC employees or former em-

ployees were in the candidate pool, it appears two of the candidates would be a given, and not nec-essarily based on merit. SIUC’s hiring is notoriously incestuous within its political and literal fam-ily with many such decisions, from the university president to lower-level faculty and sta* .

! is was not, however, the case with Cheng, who came from the University of Wisconsin-Milwau-kee where she was provost and vice chancellor for academic af-fairs. And she took the university by the horns almost immediately upon her arrival, working to boost the school’s pathetic enrollment numbers and , x its perpetually in-the-red budget. Because she has less than six months in o. ce, we can’t fully gauge her capabilities, or know if she can be trusted to choose a provost.

What we can gauge is her fear-less tendency to o* end those she

represents. We praise the e* ort, even if she angers sta* , faculty and students with suggested furlough days and tuition increases. In a , eld that does not o- en allow us to be popular and loved, we appreci-ate her willingness to take the un-popular stance from time to time. Perhaps she recognizes the direct correlation between successful outcomes and public memory. If she can give everyone what they’re begging for in increased enrollment and a less strained budget, they’re likely to forget her unpopular deci-sions and suggestions.

If this next decision, her choice of a provost and second in com-mand, is unpopular in form and function — that is, if the public is angered it didn’t have more of a vote and doesn’t agree with her provost choice — we hope she at least chooses wisely. It would be a shame to waste university money or committee members’ time to ignore

their and the community’s recom-mendations. ! is is especially true when committee members such as Dreuth Zeman heavily criticized the selection process, speci, cally its short time frame and candidate research and interview constraints. Even Googling the candidates’ names was on a speci, c time frame. And Dreuth Zeman said she did not , nd the process to be “in the spirit of shared governance.”

So, in the spirit of responsible governance, which is what SIUC desperately needs at this point, we ask that Cheng not embarrass the university by choosing an in-house candidate for his popularity, or choosing an outside candidate un-, t for such a high-level and high-stress position. ! is university has burned through its fair share of provosts and chancellors; let’s hope this pairing works better than the hodgepodge patchwork adminis-trations of SIUC’s recent past.

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As a news analyst for NPR, Juan Williams was expected to be publicly objective. NPR prohib-its employees “from appearing on programs that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis” and are “harmful to the reputation of NPR.”

Last week, however, Williams stated personal opinions on Fox News that NPR deemed inappro-priate. He was , red.

On “! e O’Reilly Factor,” Wil-liams discussed his fear of Muslims at the airport with Bill O’Reilly and Mary Katharine Ham.

“When I get on a plane … if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think they are identifying them-selves , rst and foremost as Mus-lims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

If this was the only part of the interview shown, it would be un-derstandable for viewers to be angry with Williams. However, if you see the rest of the discussion, he defended Islam, saying Mus-lims should not be stereotyped as a whole.

In William’s statement on the Fox website he said, “In a debate with Bill O’Reilly I revealed my fears to set up the case for not

making rash judgments about peo-ple of any faith. I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber — as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals — are Christians, but we journalists don’t identify them by their religion.”

Williams also pointed out that O’Reilly was the one making o* en-sive comments on the show, dis-cussing terrorists forming entire countries such as Iran.

I’m pretty sure this has turned into a “he said, she said” war. I also think each party is to blame. Wil-liams crossed the line repeatedly with NPR by expressing opinions that did not coincide with his po-sition on the sta* . Apparently, the issue had been addressed repeat-edly as well, but he did nothing to change his behavior.

I think NPR was waiting for Williams to mess up so it would have an excuse to , re him. ! is is where the company made its mis-take. Williams’ comment was tak-en out of context, and NPR jumped the gun to , re him. If his boss had only waited a little longer, I’m sure they could have had grounds to , re him for a real reason. ! e way the situation was handled also made NPR lose credit anyway. In Wil-liam’s words, his boss, Ellen Weiss,

accused him of bigotry and basi-cally asked for an apology over the phone. When he refused, she ter-minated him.

! e conservative public is us-ing this against NPR, saying it was petty. Fox said NPR turned on its employee without the decency of a face-to-face discussion. NPR CEO Vivian Schiller didn’t help the situation at a press conference by claiming that Williams’ beliefs were between “him and his psychi-atrist.” I would expect more matu-rity from the CEO of a news radio station, but Schiller didn’t meet those standards.

Some followers suggested NPR’s government funding to be cut, which is only about 2 to 3 percent of its overall budget, and others threatened to never donate to the station again. I’m afraid NPR hurt itself by making a hasty decision.

Fox, on the other hand, is eat-ing this up. As Republicans try to take over o. ces at the mid-term elections, they can pinpoint the station for , ring its employee over conservative remarks, and republi-can popularity votes will probably go up. Fox also retaliated by hir-ing Williams onto its sta* full time. ! is will be a major blow to NPR because Williams’ fans will now fol-low him on a conservative station.

! is could also gain popular votes for Republicans. Although I disagree with many of Fox’s opin-ions, I think the station played this situation to its advantage. Rather than showing dedication to Wil-liams, I believe Fox is more or less using him as a tool. ! e public will look at Fox as the noble station and gain more loyal fans. So NPR screwed up, and Fox took full ad-vantage of the moment.

But the real idiot is Williams. As a news analyst on NPR, his job was to deliver the news. As a commentator on Fox, his job was to express his opinions. ! e two roles did not agree with each other, because NPR’s standards ask news employees not to express public opinions that could damage the station’s reputation. Williams had been asked to watch what he said, but he continued to kiss up to O’Reilly to get a few dollars more. His behavior with each sta-tion di* ered, which makes him all the less credible, too. He also loves to pat himself on the back, which drives me crazy. He’s narcissistic and self-righteous. In interviews, he always makes reference to his books and how he is a civil rights leader. Writing books about an is-sue doesn’t automatically make you a leader.

In his defense statement on the Fox website, Williams said, “Gee, I guess NPR news executives never read my bestselling history of the civil rights movement … or my highly acclaimed biography. …I guess they never noticed … my last book on the state of black leader-ship in America found a place on the New York Times bestseller list.”

I just had to laugh out loud at that. Congratulations, again, Wil-liams. ! ank you for reminding us, again, of your achievements. May-be you should write a book about the ethics of journalism so we can all learn from your mistakes.

In reality, though, I don’t think this issue is what everyone is mak-ing it to be. It’s being blown out of proportion to win votes.

Author Mitch Albom said in his article, “Paying a Price for Free Speech,” “Come on. We are the best country in the world. But we are the only country so media-soaked that we would turn these isolated sen-tences into a national referendum.”

Williams was never a house-hold name before this incident, and I think his newfound fame is hollow. It’s just like Albom said of other reporters , red for expressing opinions, “! eir exits were bigger stories than anything they’d done in their careers.”

Tara Kulashsophomore studying journalism

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Brandon Merrell, a senior from Snohomish, Wash., studying political sci-ence, practices giving an introduction for a closing argument on the topic of admitting Turkey into the European Union during debate practice Tuesday in a conference room in the Communications Building. The SIU debate team will compete in a tourna-ment Thursday through Monday at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo.EDYTA B!ASZCZYKDAILY EGYPTIAN

Debate team dashes to top of nation early in season

Zombies invade Carbondale for week-long game

) e debate team sits among the best in the country as both pairs of debaters are ranked second and third.

For the past three years, the de-bate team has * nished in the top ten at the National Parliamentary Tour-nament of Excellence, which is held in March, and this season’s pursuit could be the fourth.

Brandon Merrell, a senior from Snohomish, Wash., studying eco-nomics and political science, along with his partner Mike Selck, a sophomore from Blue Springs, Mo., studying speech communication, are ranked second nationally. Just behind them are teammates Ben Campbell, a freshman from Spring-* eld, Mo., studying economics and political science, and Andrew ) omas, a junior from Stockton, Ca-lif., studying english and philosophy, in third.

Campell said performing at a debate competition can be nerve-

racking at times but is also reward-ing. He said his favorite part of competitive debates is being able to think on his feet.

"It is exhilarating and the more people you are speaking in front of the better it is at the end because you feel such a sense of pride for what you did," Campbell said.

Todd Graham, who is in his 11th season as director of the debate team, said he has been pleased with the team's early success but there is still room for improvement.

“I’d say we are well on track to being right where we want to be and we just got to keep our heads in check because we got a long way to go before we get to national cham-pionships,” Graham said.

Campbell said the team’s success is largely based on the help from Graham. He said his transition to collegiate debate was much easier because of Graham.

“Dr. Graham is undeniably the best coach in the nation and he has won numerous awards,” Campbell said.

) ough the team has only com-peted twice this season Campbell said his skills as a debater have increased dramatically.

“My ability to research and my critical thinking skills have in-creased exponentially since I joined debate,” Campbell said.

Merrell said Campbell and ) omas have performed extremely

well despite having only two tour-naments under their belt.

“It not only bodes well for the rest of the season and nationals this year but it also means that SIU is well set for the future,” Merrell said.

) e debate team will compete in a 50 to 60 team tournament ) urs-day through Monday hosted by the Colorado College.

“I want get our debaters acclimated to what it is like to be debating on that campus and to see what some of the local competitors are like so we can be better when it comes time for the na-tional competition," Graham said.


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Andrew Harless walked through campus ) ursday armed and ready to stun zombies.

Harless, a freshman from Spring-* eld studying photography, began the day as a human with a bucket full of rolled-up socks designed to stun the opposition as part of a week-long Hu-mans vs. Zombies game on campus, but became a zombie by the time the sun went down.

Humans vs. Zombies is a game of tag commonly played on college campuses, according to its website. ) e week starts with a large group of humans and just a handful of zom-bies, said Derek Boker, a senior from Brighton studying political science and a moderator. He said he started the week as a human, but was turned zombie once he was tagged by one. To defend themselves, Boker said humans can throw socks to stun zombies for 15 minutes.

Harless said the humans took a beating during the Wednesday mission.

“It was just a slaughter,” he said. “A lot, a lot went down.”

Boker said he enjoyed being a

zombie more than a human because he didn’t have to always be on guard for an attack, but the whole game is fun so long as everyone follows the rules.

“The first rule of this game is don’t be a d-bag,” he said. “You’re trying to have fun. It’s basically tag during the day and at night

there’s a little more of a story.”Luke Perdue, a freshman from

Abingdon studying civil engineering, said he started the week as a human but was tagged and is now a zombie.

“At the beginning, I was totally against zombies,” he said. “I was to-tally for humans, but now that I am a zombie, I wish I was a human so

therefore I despise them.”Boker said whichever side has the

most people at the end of the game Saturday wins and another game is planned for the spring semester.

Perdue said communication is the key to victory, and zombies have to be careful to choose the right time to attack.

“We have to be sneaky — hiding in bushes, jumping out of buildings,” he said. “We have to pretend like we’re a zombie in a movie to get (the humans).”


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I was totally for humans, but now that I am a

zombie, I wish I was a human so therefore I despise them.

— Luke Perduea freshman from Abingdon

studying civil engineering

Sarah Grueneberg, a freshman from Elk Grove studying criminal justice, decorated her arm in zombie fashion before guarding the human’s base in the campus-wide Humans vs. Zombies game Thursday out-

side Grinnell Hall. The object of the game is for zombie players to tag humans, signified by an orange armband on the players’ arm, turning them into zombies and stopping them from completing daily missions.

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Coach Brenda Winkeler said the Salukis are ready for the weird week-end in which they host the best team in the Missouri Valley Conference on Friday and the worst team in the conference on Saturday at Davies Gymnasium.

No. 13 University of Northern Iowa is undefeated in the MVC with an 11-0 record, including a three-set sweep of the Salukis (4-6) Oct. 2 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. ) e day before the loss to UNI, the Salukis had a sweep of their own against UNI's traveling partner Bradley (0-11).

Winkeler said SIU knows what UNI is capable of and is always weary of a competitive team in the dungeons of the MVC such as Bradley.

“) is is the reason you play games, and you don't play them on paper,” Winkeler said. “We have No. 13 in the country coming in and us in the mid-dle of the pack, so on paper you would say UNI wins, but I think it's going to be a fun experience for us.”

Winkeler said two strategies the Sa-lukis will need to follow if they plan on beating UNI are to serve aggressively and make UNI choose which attackers to defend. ) ere may be more serving errors than she wants to see, but her team has to stay a* er it if they want the victory, she said.

Senior outside hitter Jennifer Ber-wanger and freshman outside hitter Jessica Whitehead had dominat-ing performances Friday of 29 and 27 kills against Evansville and were named MVC player and freshman of the week. Winkeler said one of the strategies to getting Whitehead more involved was to quicken the pace of the game. Against UNI, the pace of the game will be lightning quick, Winkeler said.

“UNI will be faster, so that's one

thing that will be di+ cult for her. Get-ting on and o, the net and being ready to attack is way di, erent than what you see in high school,” Winkeler said. “) at's usually the biggest things for kids to adjust to no matter what level of club or high school they played, is usu-ally speed of the game.”

Whitehead said she has worked on blocking and hit timing. Timing has been her issue, but she showed im-

provement against Evansville, she said.Senior middle blocker Jasmine

Conner said the Salukis know what to expect because of their previous battles with both teams. Against Bradley, SIU will need to stop its talented front row players, she said. Against UNI, the defense will have to worry about the wings, Conner said.

“We know they're a big team. ) ey have good hitters all through the front

row,” Conner said. “(We have to) stay patient, they're going to get their kills and blocks, but I think for us it will be more about stopping their outsides and their right sides.”

) e team can't take Bradley for granted, senior right side hitter Alicia Johnson said. To beat Bradley, the team will have to play a fairly clean match and limit its hit and serve errors, she said.

For UNI, the team has worked

on blocking, passing and forming the defense around the block in an attempt to be UNI's only blemish in the MVC.

“) is is the part when it's kind of fun being the underdog because we have them at our place and we play well at home,” Johnson said. “I feel if everybody is on and does their jobs, there is no reason why we can't be the - rst ones to beat them.”

BRANDON LACHANCEDaily Egyptian

SIU embraces underdog roll against UNI

Sophomore setter Rachael Brown, left, and senior middle blocker Jasmine Conner jump for a block attempt Friday during their 3-2 win

over Evansville in Davies Gymnasium. The Salukis will face Northern Iowa and Bradley in conference play Friday and Saturday at home.

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SIU President Glenn Poshard and Chan-cellor Rita Cheng passed senior forwards Katrina Swingler and Carlton Fay basket-balls for layups Thursday to initiate the renovated SIU Arena.

Mario Moccia, athletic director, said the new arena will impress recruits, be com-fortable for fans to watch games because of padded seats and cup holders and be easier to navigate because of a new configuration. The game experience will be enhanced be-cause of the new scoreboard which allows replay accessibility and the ability to show who is coming into the game. The audience will also be able to view players' stats with a new stat board.

He said he is happy to see the results of the work he and all those involved with the renovated arena put into the project.

“It feels like a digestion period of an elephant. I think two years or something like that,” Moccia said. “It feels very gratifying to check this big box off the list and start getting in here and using it; it's pretty exciting for us.”


Renovated SIU Arena hosts grand opening

Freshman guard Taylor Ignoto, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., signs autographs at the opening ceremony for the newly renovated SIU Arena Thursday. Among the speakers at the event were SIU President Glenn Poshard, Chancellor Rita Cheng and men’s basketball coach Chris Lowery. The stadium was originally built in 1962, bringing SIU into Division 1 ranking for the first time.GEORGE LAMBOLEYDAILY EGYPTIAN

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Coach Brenda Winkeler said the Salukis are ready for the weird week-end in which they host the best team in the Missouri Valley Conference on Friday and the worst team in the conference on Saturday at Davies Gymnasium.

No. 13 University of Northern Iowa is undefeated in the MVC with an 11-0 record, including a three-set sweep of the Salukis (4-6) Oct. 2 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. ) e day before the loss to UNI, the Salukis had a sweep of their own against UNI's traveling partner Bradley (0-11).

Winkeler said SIU knows what UNI is capable of and is always weary of a competitive team in the dungeons of the MVC such as Bradley.

“) is is the reason you play games, and you don't play them on paper,” Winkeler said. “We have No. 13 in the country coming in and us in the mid-dle of the pack, so on paper you would say UNI wins, but I think it's going to be a fun experience for us.”

Winkeler said two strategies the Sa-lukis will need to follow if they plan on beating UNI are to serve aggressively and make UNI choose which attackers to defend. ) ere may be more serving errors than she wants to see, but her team has to stay a* er it if they want the victory, she said.

Senior outside hitter Jennifer Ber-wanger and freshman outside hitter Jessica Whitehead had dominat-ing performances Friday of 29 and 27 kills against Evansville and were named MVC player and freshman of the week. Winkeler said one of the strategies to getting Whitehead more involved was to quicken the pace of the game. Against UNI, the pace of the game will be lightning quick, Winkeler said.

“UNI will be faster, so that's one

thing that will be di+ cult for her. Get-ting on and o, the net and being ready to attack is way di, erent than what you see in high school,” Winkeler said. “) at's usually the biggest things for kids to adjust to no matter what level of club or high school they played, is usu-ally speed of the game.”

Whitehead said she has worked on blocking and hit timing. Timing has been her issue, but she showed im-

provement against Evansville, she said.Senior middle blocker Jasmine

Conner said the Salukis know what to expect because of their previous battles with both teams. Against Bradley, SIU will need to stop its talented front row players, she said. Against UNI, the defense will have to worry about the wings, Conner said.

“We know they're a big team. ) ey have good hitters all through the front

row,” Conner said. “(We have to) stay patient, they're going to get their kills and blocks, but I think for us it will be more about stopping their outsides and their right sides.”

) e team can't take Bradley for granted, senior right side hitter Alicia Johnson said. To beat Bradley, the team will have to play a fairly clean match and limit its hit and serve errors, she said.

For UNI, the team has worked

on blocking, passing and forming the defense around the block in an attempt to be UNI's only blemish in the MVC.

“) is is the part when it's kind of fun being the underdog because we have them at our place and we play well at home,” Johnson said. “I feel if everybody is on and does their jobs, there is no reason why we can't be the - rst ones to beat them.”


SIU embraces underdog roll against UNI

Sophomore setter Rachael Brown, left, and senior middle blocker Jasmine Conner jump for a block attempt Friday during their 3-2 win

over Evansville in Davies Gymnasium. The Salukis will face Northern Iowa and Bradley in conference play Friday and Saturday at home.

JESS VERMEULEN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

SIU President Glenn Poshard and Chan-cellor Rita Cheng passed senior forwards Katrina Swingler and Carlton Fay basket-balls for layups Thursday to initiate the renovated SIU Arena.

Mario Moccia, athletic director, said the new arena will impress recruits, be com-fortable for fans to watch games because of padded seats and cup holders and be easier to navigate because of a new configuration. The game experience will be enhanced be-cause of the new scoreboard which allows replay accessibility and the ability to show who is coming into the game. The audience will also be able to view players' stats with a new stat board.

He said he is happy to see the results of the work he and all those involved with the renovated arena put into the project.

“It feels like a digestion period of an elephant. I think two years or something like that,” Moccia said. “It feels very gratifying to check this big box off the list and start getting in here and using it; it's pretty exciting for us.”


Renovated SIU Arena hosts grand opening

Freshman guard Taylor Ignoto, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., signs autographs at the opening ceremony for the newly renovated SIU Arena Thursday. Among the speakers at the event were SIU President Glenn Poshard, Chancellor Rita Cheng and men’s basketball coach Chris Lowery. The stadium was originally built in 1962, bringing SIU into Division 1 ranking for the first time.GEORGE LAMBOLEYDAILY EGYPTIAN

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If an 11-person committee de-voted months to narrowing

down provost candidates for Chancel-lor Rita Cheng, it stands to reason it would have a say in the , nal decision.

And, in a way, committee mem-bers will. Cheng said Wednesday “in the spirit of shared governance” she encourages anyone, including committee members, to speak to her about the candidates following their on-campus visits this month. Although she will choose from the four , nalists selected by the com-mittee, and promises to take the community’s opinion into account, Cheng stands , rmly by choosing a candidate herself.

Committee member Laura Dreuth Zeman, professor of social work and women’s studies, said Cheng told the committee its role ended when the names were sub-mitted to her, and the committee would not interview candidates during on-campus interviews.

However, Cheng did not exclude committee members from candi-dates’ forums and faculty recep-tions at SIUC and, in fact, com-mittee head Laurie Achenbach introduced the candidates at many of those forums.

Cheng justi, ed the time and money spent on the committee with the time and e* ort it put into the selection process: screening ap-plicants, checking references and choosing , ve , nalists from roughly 40 applicants in the end. ! e , - h dropped out, leaving Cheng with interim Provost Don Rice, Gary Minish, former dean of the College of Agriculture, Robert Hampton, professor of sociology and social work at Tennessee State University, and Cameron Hackney, dean of the Davis College of Agriculture, Natu-ral Resources and Design in West Virginia.

Without knowing what other SIUC employees or former em-

ployees were in the candidate pool, it appears two of the candidates would be a given, and not nec-essarily based on merit. SIUC’s hiring is notoriously incestuous within its political and literal fam-ily with many such decisions, from the university president to lower-level faculty and sta* .

! is was not, however, the case with Cheng, who came from the University of Wisconsin-Milwau-kee where she was provost and vice chancellor for academic af-fairs. And she took the university by the horns almost immediately upon her arrival, working to boost the school’s pathetic enrollment numbers and , x its perpetually in-the-red budget. Because she has less than six months in o. ce, we can’t fully gauge her capabilities, or know if she can be trusted to choose a provost.

What we can gauge is her fear-less tendency to o* end those she

represents. We praise the e* ort, even if she angers sta* , faculty and students with suggested furlough days and tuition increases. In a , eld that does not o- en allow us to be popular and loved, we appreci-ate her willingness to take the un-popular stance from time to time. Perhaps she recognizes the direct correlation between successful outcomes and public memory. If she can give everyone what they’re begging for in increased enrollment and a less strained budget, they’re likely to forget her unpopular deci-sions and suggestions.

If this next decision, her choice of a provost and second in com-mand, is unpopular in form and function — that is, if the public is angered it didn’t have more of a vote and doesn’t agree with her provost choice — we hope she at least chooses wisely. It would be a shame to waste university money or committee members’ time to ignore

their and the community’s recom-mendations. ! is is especially true when committee members such as Dreuth Zeman heavily criticized the selection process, speci, cally its short time frame and candidate research and interview constraints. Even Googling the candidates’ names was on a speci, c time frame. And Dreuth Zeman said she did not , nd the process to be “in the spirit of shared governance.”

So, in the spirit of responsible governance, which is what SIUC desperately needs at this point, we ask that Cheng not embarrass the university by choosing an in-house candidate for his popularity, or choosing an outside candidate un-, t for such a high-level and high-stress position. ! is university has burned through its fair share of provosts and chancellors; let’s hope this pairing works better than the hodgepodge patchwork adminis-trations of SIUC’s recent past.

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As a news analyst for NPR, Juan Williams was expected to be publicly objective. NPR prohib-its employees “from appearing on programs that encourage punditry and speculation rather than fact-based analysis” and are “harmful to the reputation of NPR.”

Last week, however, Williams stated personal opinions on Fox News that NPR deemed inappro-priate. He was , red.

On “! e O’Reilly Factor,” Wil-liams discussed his fear of Muslims at the airport with Bill O’Reilly and Mary Katharine Ham.

“When I get on a plane … if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think they are identifying them-selves , rst and foremost as Mus-lims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

If this was the only part of the interview shown, it would be un-derstandable for viewers to be angry with Williams. However, if you see the rest of the discussion, he defended Islam, saying Mus-lims should not be stereotyped as a whole.

In William’s statement on the Fox website he said, “In a debate with Bill O’Reilly I revealed my fears to set up the case for not

making rash judgments about peo-ple of any faith. I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber — as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals — are Christians, but we journalists don’t identify them by their religion.”

Williams also pointed out that O’Reilly was the one making o* en-sive comments on the show, dis-cussing terrorists forming entire countries such as Iran.

I’m pretty sure this has turned into a “he said, she said” war. I also think each party is to blame. Wil-liams crossed the line repeatedly with NPR by expressing opinions that did not coincide with his po-sition on the sta* . Apparently, the issue had been addressed repeat-edly as well, but he did nothing to change his behavior.

I think NPR was waiting for Williams to mess up so it would have an excuse to , re him. ! is is where the company made its mis-take. Williams’ comment was tak-en out of context, and NPR jumped the gun to , re him. If his boss had only waited a little longer, I’m sure they could have had grounds to , re him for a real reason. ! e way the situation was handled also made NPR lose credit anyway. In Wil-liam’s words, his boss, Ellen Weiss,

accused him of bigotry and basi-cally asked for an apology over the phone. When he refused, she ter-minated him.

! e conservative public is us-ing this against NPR, saying it was petty. Fox said NPR turned on its employee without the decency of a face-to-face discussion. NPR CEO Vivian Schiller didn’t help the situation at a press conference by claiming that Williams’ beliefs were between “him and his psychi-atrist.” I would expect more matu-rity from the CEO of a news radio station, but Schiller didn’t meet those standards.

Some followers suggested NPR’s government funding to be cut, which is only about 2 to 3 percent of its overall budget, and others threatened to never donate to the station again. I’m afraid NPR hurt itself by making a hasty decision.

Fox, on the other hand, is eat-ing this up. As Republicans try to take over o. ces at the mid-term elections, they can pinpoint the station for , ring its employee over conservative remarks, and republi-can popularity votes will probably go up. Fox also retaliated by hir-ing Williams onto its sta* full time. ! is will be a major blow to NPR because Williams’ fans will now fol-low him on a conservative station.

! is could also gain popular votes for Republicans. Although I disagree with many of Fox’s opin-ions, I think the station played this situation to its advantage. Rather than showing dedication to Wil-liams, I believe Fox is more or less using him as a tool. ! e public will look at Fox as the noble station and gain more loyal fans. So NPR screwed up, and Fox took full ad-vantage of the moment.

But the real idiot is Williams. As a news analyst on NPR, his job was to deliver the news. As a commentator on Fox, his job was to express his opinions. ! e two roles did not agree with each other, because NPR’s standards ask news employees not to express public opinions that could damage the station’s reputation. Williams had been asked to watch what he said, but he continued to kiss up to O’Reilly to get a few dollars more. His behavior with each sta-tion di* ered, which makes him all the less credible, too. He also loves to pat himself on the back, which drives me crazy. He’s narcissistic and self-righteous. In interviews, he always makes reference to his books and how he is a civil rights leader. Writing books about an is-sue doesn’t automatically make you a leader.

In his defense statement on the Fox website, Williams said, “Gee, I guess NPR news executives never read my bestselling history of the civil rights movement … or my highly acclaimed biography. …I guess they never noticed … my last book on the state of black leader-ship in America found a place on the New York Times bestseller list.”

I just had to laugh out loud at that. Congratulations, again, Wil-liams. ! ank you for reminding us, again, of your achievements. May-be you should write a book about the ethics of journalism so we can all learn from your mistakes.

In reality, though, I don’t think this issue is what everyone is mak-ing it to be. It’s being blown out of proportion to win votes.

Author Mitch Albom said in his article, “Paying a Price for Free Speech,” “Come on. We are the best country in the world. But we are the only country so media-soaked that we would turn these isolated sen-tences into a national referendum.”

Williams was never a house-hold name before this incident, and I think his newfound fame is hollow. It’s just like Albom said of other reporters , red for expressing opinions, “! eir exits were bigger stories than anything they’d done in their careers.”

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“Last year, with only half a mile to go, we were winning the race, and then over that last half mile they won the race by one point,” Dunbar said.

To win conference the Salukis plan to put Dunbar and junior Neal Anderson ahead of the Syca-mores, while senior Kyle Kirchner and sophomores Zach Dahleen and Lucas Cherry try to break up their pack.

Runners such as Anderson, Kirchner and himself have a chip on their shoulder heading in to Saturday's meet, Dunbar said. ) e younger runners, Dahleen and Cherry, understand the up-perclassmen's frustration from the 2009 season and want to capture a title just as bad, he said.

Teams that * nish fourth through seventh place in the women's race will all be within a few points of each other Saturday, Hoelscher said.

) e goal for the women's team is to * nish fourth or better, Sparks said. Saluki front runners Toen-nies, Hoelscher and junior Jamie P* ster should * nish in the top 15,

and that should give the team an advantage, he said.

How high the men's and wom-en's teams place ultimately comes down to the Salukis entrenching themselves among the leaders and holding their position, Sparks said.

“Every point is really going to matter to get to where we want to be. Fi+ h, sixth and seventh will probably (have) only a 20-point di, erence,” Hoelscher said.

Hoelscher said she and Toen-nies plan to * nish all-conference in the top 10 Saturday by keeping pace with Illinois State, which was pegged to * nish second in the MVC pre-championship poll Tuesday.

“Coach told me stay with the Il-linois State girls because I know all of them. I know how they run and I know they're going to be right

where I want to be,” Hoelscher said.

Toennies said Illinois State has a strong starting * ve with runners who * nish within seconds of each other.

“Megan, Jamie and I have com-peted well against them and hope-fully we can put as many of us in front of them to help our fourth and * + h runners,” Toennies said.

) e championship begins at

10:30 a.m. Saturday in Augusta, Kan.

Brandon Coleman can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-331 ext. 269.

(From Left) Cross country team members Kristian Baldwin, Megan Hoelscher and Jamie Pfister laugh as Hoelscher explains an event that happened during cross country practice

at the runners’ apartment. Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams will compete Saturday in the Missouri Valley Conference Championship in Augusta, Kan.

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E very point is really going to matter to get

to where we want to be. Fifth, sixth and seventh will probably (have) only a 20-point difference.

— Megan Hoelschersenior cross country runner

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Kim Rowan says without the recently installed hoop house, or-ganic farming on campus would need to take a winter break.

A hoop, or green, house main-tains a warmer temperature that allows plants to continue to grow during cooler seasons when the ground freezes.

“As soon as the winter comes along the ground freezes so we’re not able to plant anything,” Rowan said. “The hoop house will serve as a season extender.”

Besides being a student, Row-an said she is an active member in the Local Organic Gardening Ini-tiative of Carbondale, a student-run organization that grows food for the dining halls.

As of now 32 percent of food provided in the dining halls is lo-cally grown, but in the next few years the group plans to increase that percentage by providing veg-etables, Rowan said.

William Connors, the dining hall food service chef, said to-matoes, peppers, corn, potatoes, cauliflower and cabbage will be harvested in the hoop house this winter. Though the hoop house will multiply current growth by 300 percent, he said the results won’t come close to the vegetable demand in the dining halls.

“The hoop house could supple-ment what we buy, but it doesn’t even come close to what we need," Connors said.

He said the dining halls serve

more than 200 pounds of toma-toes alone, and the idea of campus farming satisfying these needs by December isn’t realistic.

“We’re just going one step at a time,” Connors said.

Laura Williams, a senior from Fairfield studying geography, serves as manager of LOGIC and said the entire growing process is in the early phases.

“Although the farming has ex-panded over the past two years, we definitely have a long way to go,” Williams said.

She said the first step in kick-starting the process is to encour-age more people to volunteer in the fields.

Twice a week, students and fac-ulty are given the opportunity to go out to the fields and volunteer their time. However, Williams said usually only four people show up, and lack of awareness is to blame.

“Over time awareness will in-crease, and if there are more vol-unteers the process will go along a lot quicker,” Williams said. “People don’t always realize the way food can affect every aspect of their lives.”

Rowan said she is surprised more students aren’t interested in participating especially after the

Green Fee became incorporated into tuition. On May 1, 2009, the SIU Board of Trustees passed the $10 per semester student Green Fee, which is projected to raise $300,000 annually and fund the campus farming, according to the SIUC sustainability website.

With money from the fee, Williams said her group expects to eventually get more land and possibly another hoop house. She said this would be a component of reaching their goal of supplying a majority of the food served in dining halls.

“The more students that vol-unteer, the more work is done, then we can prove how important this is and in the end receive more funding,” Williams said.

As far as this winter goes, Con-nors said the hoop house will make a significant difference but dining services will continue to import much of its produce.

“This is just a start,” he said. “We’re still in the experimental phases, but in the end we hope to expand enough to provide dining halls with a substantial amount of locally grown foods.”

Leah Stover can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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Randy Hughes, president of the Faculty Association, said he has heard some faculty express their dissatisfaction with how the forums have been handled, along with a concern that their opinions are not being taken into consider-ation.

“I think that faculty concerns and what they find out about the candidates, all that information should be considered in a deci-sion,” he said. “Another aspect where the feedback seems to be failing is that the search commit-tee has been relieved in this pro-cess, which is unusual too.”

Dreuth Zeman said the search committee was disbanded once they submitted the names of rec-ommended candidates. She said though committee members can still give individual opinions to Cheng, the committee is not al-lowed to interview candidates when they tour campus.

But Cheng said she is still open to all feedback from campus, and anyone should feel free to contact

her by e-mail or phone or visit her office to voice an opinion.

“In the spirit of shared govern-ment, (faculty) should engage in the process, because the provost would be important not only to the deans but also the individual faculty. It's the academic core of this institution,” Cheng said. “So we need a real good, strong person in that position. Shared governance suggests that yes, yes (faculty) should be involved.”

Hughes said the policy of shared governance includes fac-ulty acting in a type of “advisory role” to make a decision, but he said he was still unsure if the spir-it of shared governance was being practiced in this situation. He said faculty and staff feedback needs to be taken as “real and impactful” in the decision.

While he understands Cheng's decision will be final, Hughes said administrators need to show they will take feedback seriously.

“There needs to be some mechanism for the constituents to know their feedback played a real and relevant role in the selection,” Hughes said.

Cheng said she hopes to make a selection by mid-to-late Novem-ber. She said everyone's opinion matters, but she reiterated the provost will be second-in-com-mand to her, and she wants some-one she is comfortable with in the role.

“I will broadly seek campus in-put, but the final decision will be mine,” she said.

Ryan Voyles can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 254.

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T he more students that volunteer, the more work is done, then we can prove how important this is and in the end

receive more funding.!— Laura Williams

a senior from Fairfield studying geography

I will be going to the faculty colleagues,

the administrators here, anyone who has participated in the interviews and seek their advice. But once I receive that advice, I’ll weigh it and make the decision myself.

— Rita Cheng Chancellor

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Today’s birthday — Direct your personal power and will toward all types of creativity. Your career blossoms as you gain fluidity in expression. This year may be about imagining the many uses of the treasures stored within your memory. Make your findings public soon for best results.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 5 — You find yourself deeply involved with your own feelings today. Don’t try to talk yourself out of them. Instead, face them squarely. This brings peace.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — You love the passionate response that you get from your favorite people when you share an idea. It’s not time yet to put the plan into action.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — You love the passionate response that you get from your favorite people when you share an idea. It’s not time yet to put the plan into action.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Productivity gets a boost when you allow yourself to chase your passion. Take advantage of the circumstances to make hay while the sun shines.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Your week comes to conclusion on a most satisfying note. Go out and celebrate your success with good food and good friends. Record this day for the future.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — As you look forward to the weekend, handle small tasks as you go. That way you free up time for everyone to do something fun together.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 6 — Nurture your own social position by bringing something unusual to the plans. A male handles the invitations, while you focus on refreshments.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Everything gets accomplished that you need to do today. Oddly, your enthusiasm isn’t as important as consistent effort. Tease others into compliance.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — It’s easy to stay on track today with major changes. Just take the next step. You already have a great plan and the necessary energy.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — Keep yourself focused on what’s on your desk. Don’t get distracted by associates and chatter. You want to get home to something more fun.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Enjoy every moment shared with associates. Everyone seems alive, thriving and working at their optimal level. You see success ahead.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March. 20) — Today is a 9 — Plan on spending a lot of time in public situations today. Circumstances require your presence. Clear your schedule and remain flexible.

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He said the college had made cuts to that part of the budget in the past, but he wanted to continue the college’s recruiting e) orts and student services.

Karen Jones, interim chair of the department of animal science, food and nutrition, said her department was not directly a) ected by the budget cuts, but it cannot * ll faculty positions a+ er faculty members retire or resign.

She said her department has hired more non-tenure-track professors to * ll positions previously held by ten-ured or tenure-track professors.

Jones said any additional budget

cuts would be tough for the depart-ment to absorb.

“We have a pretty good budget go-ing right now,” she said. “Our budget still has some , exibility in it. A per-manent 1 percent would really hurt, though.”

Winters said he held back an extra 1 percent at the start of the semester in case more cuts were needed. He said he

saved the additional 1 percent by keep-ing two positions vacant at University Farms. However, he said he would try to reorganize those positions in a more e- cient manner in the future.

Jones said University Farms is a major component of the animal sci-ence curriculum. While her depart-ment is not directly responsible for the day-to-day operation of the farms,

several faculty members are supervi-sors for the farms.

“Making those budgets at those units balance, especially a+ er the May 8 storm with feed mills collapsing and barns falling down, is a large bur-den on our faculty to try and make everything work like it is supposed to,” she said.

If more cuts become necessary, the college has some money in reserve that it could use to make another cut up to about 2 percent, Winters said.

Klubek said the cuts have not had a serious impact yet because the faculty has worked hard to keep the cuts from a) ecting students directly.

However, he said any additional

cuts could be “disastrous.”“If any more cuts have to come,

that’s going to be a backbreaker,” Klubek said. “Our backs are against the wall. . ere is no more room.”

Winters said the * nancial situation might get worse before it gets better, but the college has planned and adapt-ed to keep up with budget cuts.

“We’re agriculture,” he said. “Farm-ers are used to getting through tough times, and you have to plan ahead. You have to think about the future and try to forecast the best you can.”


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Turkish students gathered to share their ancient culture and to celebrate the founding of their modern republic.

The event, called Turkish Day, was held Wednesday at the John C. Guyon Auditorium in Mor-ris Library and focused on Mus-tafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey on Oct. 29, 1923. Atatürk, whose name means “the father of the Turks,” pioneered reforms that changed Turkey forever.

“This celebration is to remem-ber Atatürk and his reforms be-cause who we are is because of him. His reforms turned Turkey

into a western civilization,” Selin Guner, a Ph.D. student in political science from Turkey, said.

Baris Sagsoy, one of the event's organizers and a native of Turkey, said one of the day's purposes was to show students that Turkey is not an Arabic country, but a multi-faceted country with a dif-ferent language and rich culture that is thousands of years old and should be shared.

Members of the Turkish Stu-dent Association, a 25-year-old organization and sponsor of the event, said many Americans have misconceptions about the country that they are eager to clear up.

“Turkish people, we just want to share our culture and learn dif-ferent cultures, and we ask people

to share their cultures and expe-riences here,” Kursad Tosun, vice president of the Turkish Student Association, said.

Tosun, a graduate doctoral stu-dent in mathematics from Turkey, showed a video at the event about Atatürk and the changes that hap-pened in Turkey after World War I.

“Every year, on the 29th of Oc-tober, all around the world, Turks come together and celebrate this event,” Tosun said.

Guner said one of the ways Turks celebrate is with good cui-sine.

“There are many differences between Turkey and America, but the biggest one would be the food,” Guner said.

Several Turkish foods were served, such as lentil meatballs, beans, pita bread, rice, pastries and baklava. At-tendees of Guner's presentation were invited to try the dishes.

. ere were also many students in attendance who were eager to learn about the Turkish culture.

Michael Hensley, a graduate student in economics from Peoria, said the presentation was interest-ing and he learned much, having known nothing about Atatürk and

the founding of Turkey before the presentation.

Hensley said he would attend the celebration of Turkish Day at SIU again.

Guner said the Turkish Stu-dent Association has celebrated the day at SIU for three years and it plans to do it again in 2011.

Kelsi Lockhart can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 273.

Turkish Day celebrates Turkish Republic at SIUKELSI LOCKHARTDaily Egyptian

T urkish people, we just want to share our culture and learn different cultures, and we ask people to share

their cultures and experiences here.

— Kursad Tosunvice president of the Turkish Student Association

W e’re agriculture. Farmers are used to getting through tough times, and you have to plan ahead. You have to

think about the future and try to forecast the best you can.

— Todd Wintersdean of the college of agriculture


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I think Randy Moss will torch his former team, but the New England Partriots will still win the game because they have Tom Brady and a defense that’s playing better than the Vikings’.

Two weeks removed from being traded to the Vikings from the New England Patriots, star wide receiver Randy Moss will take the field Sunday against New England. Will Moss torch his former team, or will New England prove they don’t need him to win games?

Moss will light up the Pats’ inexperienced secondary like a Jack ‘O Lantern — which is fitting, because the game will be played on Halloween.

How is Randy Moss going to torch the Patriots when they have no one to give him the ball? Favre will play, but hobbled, and Tarvaris Jackson has no skill except with his feet.

Walker said the team has more con) dence coming o* a great per-formance against the University of Missouri and the University of Ken-

tucky, but that doesn’t guarantee a win Saturday.

“+ e reality of it is that we can have con) dence and still get beat. We need to have con) dence and re-sults,” Walker said.

+ e Salukis will face the Bears

at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Edward J. Shea Natatorium in the Recreation Center.


or 618-536-3311 ext. 274.

Senior SIU linebacker Stephen Franklin said the Salukis have strug-gled with man-to-man execution against the run and can't a* ord to give the Missouri State running backs any space Saturday.

“If they get out in the open ) eld they're pretty dangerous, so we're go-ing to try and keep them con) ned in the box and make the tackles there,” Franklin said. “We've just got to do a better job of knowing our schemes.”

+ e Salukis' own running game has earned 167 yards per game, 74 yards less than Missouri State's.

Junior running back Shari* Har-ris, SIU's leading rusher, said it's up to him and the rest of the backs to get better.

“It's more execution. We've got the o* ensive line doing a heck of a job, we just have to do a better job. And it starts with me in the back) eld, I've got to hit the holes right. Sometimes I will bounce and try to go outside and the hole won't be there,” Harris said.

+ e Bears play a four-linebacker, three-defensive lineman base de-fense, the same scheme as the Salukis. Like SIU, they bring pressure from multiple angles with that defense, Lennon said.

But for the ) rst time this season, the Salukis will have a completely healthy o* ensive line battling the Bears' pressure. Sophomore guard Eric Bergman and junior tackle Scott Becker have returned from injuries and will anchor the right side together Saturday for the ) rst time since Week 4, Lennon said.

Missouri State turned the ball over ) ve times in a 44-24 loss to the Salukis in the conference ) nale at McAndrew Stadium in 2009, and Al-len said turnovers will likely be the deciding factor Saturday.

In a conference where eight of the nine teams have two or three conference wins, Lennon said much will be decided with four weeks le, in the season.

“+ is weekend's important. It's important in the league. I think if you look at every team that's playing this weekend, it's probably as big of a weekend as we've got,” he said.

Kicko* for the game is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday in Spring) eld, Mo.

Nick Johnson can be reached at [email protected]

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Hamilton battles at bat and in his lifeSAN FRANCISCO — He

was the can’t miss kid, a talent so prodigious that he may have rewrit-ten the record books had things gone according to plan

When cocaine meant more to Josh Hamilton than life itself, though, baseball didn’t stand a chance.

“All I could think about was how to get and use more drugs,” Ham-ilton said a few days ago. “I mean

that’s all I cared about and all I thought about.”

Blessed with tremendous abil-ity, he was equally cursed by tre-mendous desires. + ey almost cost him his career, and could have cost him his life.

On + ursday night, Hamilton was batting third and playing center ) eld for the Texas Rangers in Game 2 of the World Series. If his team ends up winning the champion-ship, he’ll be the one being doused

on the ) eld with ginger ale instead of champagne.

He plays a game where failure comes easier than success. But his time on the ) eld may be the easi-est part of a life he struggles to live every day.

By now it’s become a routine, because a routine makes it that much harder to stray. For a base-ball player, the temptations of life can o, en be magni) ed by the temptations of the road.

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SWIMMING & DIVING

Senior Megan Hoelscher says Missouri Valley Conference coach-es underestimate the SIU women's cross country team because the Sa-lukis did not bring ! ve or more top recruits this season.

" e Salukis will surprise teams such as Missouri State, Drake and Northern Iowa on Saturday at the MVC Championship Invite in Augusta, Kan., because everyone from Hoelscher to ! # h-slot runner Kristian Baldwin and senior Emily Toennies are peaking at the same time, she said.

“Baldwin right now has re-ally stepped it up in practice these last two weeks; she's been running amazing,” Hoelscher said.

She said Baldwin felt more pres-sure to ! nish near the top with Toennies and her at the start of the season, but since coach Matt Sparks helped Baldwin train to ! n-ish between 40th and 50th place at

conference, she has run in a more relaxed and con! dent way.

“We wanted her to focus on training that would get her 40th or 50th because that might not sound the greatest, but for what we need her to do that would be a good race,” Toennies said.

For the ! rst time in several years, Baldwin has renewed con! dence in

herself and her abilities, Sparks said.On the men's team, the Salu-

kis were picked to ! nish second at conference. Sparks said the In-diana State Sycamores — picked to win the meet — were ranked ahead of the Salukis because of their run-ners' ability to pack together at the ! nish.

Senior leader Dan Dunbar said the Sycamores will be a challenge because not only do they pack at the ! nish, but they also excel at closing gaps and stretching leads during the last two kilometers of races.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Isabela Castro laughs with fellow swimmers during Wednesday’s practice in the Edward J. Shea Natatorium at the Recreation

Center. Both men’s and women’s teams will compete Saturday against Missouri State at home.

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" e Salukis want to send a mes-sage Saturday to conference foe Missouri State.

Junior Matt Kruse said the swim-ming and diving team wants to put fear into the Bears for when the two teams meet again at conference.

“We want to beat them by a lot at

this dual meet, and scare them for con-ference and let them know that a# er this meet at conference, we are coming for them,” Kruse said.

" e two teams met in January at a tri-meet hosted by Missouri State where the Salukis beat Truman State but lost to the host. Kruse said the team believes the results will be di$ er-ent because the Salukis have a home pool advantage.

“" e mentality going in is that this is our house, our pool and we are not going to back down. We know we have a chance to win and everyone on the team believes that we will,” Kruse said.

Sophomore Kirsten Groome said the meet would be a great opportunity for the freshmen swimmers on the team to see conference competition.

“" ey have no idea how Missouri State swims and who is on their team.

It will give them a pretty good idea of what we are up against,” Groome said.

Coach Rick Walker said the team has to continue to put up its best performances to beat Missouri State. He said though Missouri State is the favorite, SIU can’t get wrapped up in its opponent.

RYAN SIMONINDaily Egyptian

Salukis prepare to scare Bears at home

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Missouri State is fresh o$ a thrill-ing 31-28 victory in Week 7 over then-Missouri Valley Conference leader Western Illinois, but coach Terry Allen said his Bears will have much on their minds when the Sa-lukis visit Spring! eld, Mo., for their conference matchup Saturday.

“Everything about Southern scares me, to be honest with you,” Allen said.

But Missouri State's o$ ense might not have much to fear. " e Bears (3-4, 2-2 MVFC) average 241 rushing yards per game, while the Salukis (3-4, 2-2 MVFC), coming o$ a bye week, have given up an average of 178 yards per game on the ground. " e Bears are running the football better than they ever have, Allen said.

Missouri State eviscerated West-ern for 351 yards on the ground Sat-urday and got two interceptions from defensive back Jimmie Strong, one of which was returned for a touchdown, in the victory.

“A# er we lost two league games in overtime on the road, to win at home against Western was pretty important, no question about it,” Allen said.

Running backs Chris Douglas and Stephen Johnston have combined for 1,343 yards and 10 touchdowns behind a veteran o$ ensive line to give the Bears a rushing attack they didn't have last season, Allen said. But quarterback Cody Kirby has been the Bears' leading touchdown scorer, with 12 rushing and eight passing. Kirby has rushed 86 times for 424 yards.

“He's their trigger man, he makes their whole o$ ense go. He's de! nitely a strong run force but he also can do it with his arm,” SIU coach Dale Len-non said. “Defensively we can't be making a whole lot of mistakes.”

NICK JOHNSONDaily Egyptian

Potent MSU next for SIU

M egan, Jamie and I have competed well against them and hopefully we can put as many of us in front of

them to help our fourth and fifth runner.— Emily Toennies

senior cross country runner

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october 29, 2010 daily egyptian

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